Jose Bergamin Quotes

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Jose Bergamin

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Jose Bergamin

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Jose Bergamin

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
Jose Bergamin

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
Jose Bergamin

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
Jose Bergamin

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
Jose Bergamin

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
Jose Bergamin

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Jose Bergamin

Happiness is always a coincidence.
Jose Bergamin

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
Jose Bergamin

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
Jose Bergamin

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Jose Bergamin

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
Jose Bergamin

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
Jose Bergamin

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
Jose Bergamin

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
Jose Bergamin

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Jose Bergamin

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
Jose Bergamin